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Chris Jansing is All of Us Watching Unfolding Events
@Acyn
Im going to keep this shorter version of the Chris Jansing clip for whenever the news is awful
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1266957497186652160
John Fugelsang on Chachi's Defense of Le Dolt Orange
Trump continues to claim broad powers he doesn't have
Nothing we didn't already know, but it can't be said enough.
Source: APNews.com
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As he battles the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump has been claiming extraordinarily sweeping powers that legal scholars say the president simply doesnt have. And he has repeatedly refused to spell out the legal basis for those powers.
Its not that the president doesnt have a remarkable amount of power to respond to a public health crisis. Its that these are not the powers he has, said Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas School of Law professor who specializes in constitutional and national security law.
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Trump certainly does not have the power under any reasonable reading of the Constitution or federalism to order places of worship to open, said Matthew Dallek, a historian at George Washington Universitys Graduate School of Political Management who specializes in the use of presidential power.
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Hes still trying to wield his often outrageous interpretations of the law as a cudgel to bludgeon others, said Joshua Geltzer, founding executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center.
More at: https://apnews.com/d60a6b1faa40bb91d278b2a54850a6e1
Emphasis in the above mine.
Twitter Threads
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Pennywise and his doppelganger, Poundfoolish.
@SawyerJerry
Pennywise and Poundfoolish
https://twitter.com/SawyerJerry/status/1264642614294446080
Bob Cesca Muses on What Would Happen If COVID-19 Was Nuclear Radiation Instead
@bobcesca_go
I wonder if the kneejerk morons flooding into the streets would do the same if the virus were nuclear radiation instead.
https://twitter.com/bobcesca_go/status/1264274846738984964
Wouldn't it make more sense to ask Biden if he is planning to pardon Trump?
@MaxBoot
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5h
Peak OAN. Wouldnt it make more sense to ask Biden if he is planning to pardon Trump?
https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1263923465222008834
Malcolm Nance: MAGA Means Murder Americans in Great Amounts
Malcolm Nance
@MalcolmNance
100,000 DEAD. #MAGA2020 seems to stand for Murder Americans in Great Amounts. #Disgraceful #ResignTrump
https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1263982430731583488
Dedication Time
This one goes out to the NFL for unnecessarily and brutally destroying Dave Volsky's YouTube channel, which was devoted to 1960's and 1970's NFL nostalgia.
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